Lemon garlic spinach pesto with zucchini angel hair pasta

For those of you living grain-free, on the SCD, or just trying to cut out carbs/pasta today’s recipe will fit the bill. I introduce to you another raw food creation! Since spring has not yet fully arrived here in Toronto I can’t grow my own basil to make fresh pesto every week so I decided to substitute that with spinach! I sometimes find I buy way more than I plan to eat so why not make a pesto from it!

The trick to this recipe is the pasta! You have two options here. The first is to go out and buy a handy spiral slicer for $30 CAD.  These are available at most health food places or you can order one online at most retailers! They are great and will definitely come in handy!  The second option which I have done before is to Julienne the zucchini very finely. This will take longer but at the end of the day you will have zucchini noodles you can use! The rest of this recipe is as simple as tossing your pesto with the noodles, garnishing with some fresh cherry tomatoes and cilantro and serve!

enjoy!

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PDF —————>Lemon Garlic Spinach Pesto with Zucchini Angel Hair Pasta<—————PDF

Raw vegan cheesecake with fruit puree topping

Lately I have been investigating “raw’ cooking. For those who don’t know raw cooking is essentially a way of preparing food without cooking or processing (aka no heat!). For those of you in bigger cities you may have noticed a few restaurants popping up lately catering to this such as “Rawlicious” here in Toronto. For my first attempt i decided I would go with a classic cheesecake! (For those of you who are strictly vegan substitute out the honey for your choice of sweetener)

How can someone make a vegan cheesecake?! The answer is cashews! These and of course several other nuts are used to create a wonderful chewy crust and and unique cheese layer. The addition of citrus juices and extracts help flavour the cashew cheese portion.

While some are happy with this alone as their dessert, i decided to go one step further and create a fruit puree topping with some honey to offset so many different nut flavours! Just remember in order to set these kinds of desserts you need to use the freezer to set (but not freeze!)

So go out and try something new!

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PDF —————–>Vegan Cheesecake with fruit puree topping <———————PDF

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